Joe Armstrong to Join Louise Brealey in CONSTELLATIONS UK Tour

Joe Armstrong will join Louise Brealey in the Royal Court's UK tour of Nick Payne's award-winning Constellations.

Directed by Michael Longhurst, this hugely successful play previously enjoyed sell-out runs at the Royal Court, the West End and most recently on Broadway. This tour of Constellations will travel to Woking, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton, Salford, Cambridge, Richmond and Brighton.

Quantum multiverse theory, love and honey; Constellations is an explosive play about free will and friendship from one of the leading voices in UK theatre, Nick Payne.

Sparked by the first encounter of bee-keeping Roland and scientist Marianne, the boundless potential of their connection leads us through a heart-breaking love story of endless invention.

Constellations forms part of the Royal Court's ongoing commitment to touring new work across the UK and around the world.

Joe Armstrong plays Roland. He last appeared at the Royal Court in The Empire. His other stage credits include, most recently The Dumb Waiter (Print Room), Miss Julie (Royal Exchange), Flare Path (Haymarket), Orphans (Traverse/Soho), A Night at the Dogs (Soho). On television, his credits include The Village, Happy Valley, The Hollow Crown: Henry IV pt 1 (directed by Richard Eyre), The Last Detective and Midsomer Murders. His film credits include Closer to the Moon and A Passionate Woman.

Louise Brealey plays Marianne. She last appeared at the Royal Court in Joe Penhall's Birthday. Other work at the Court includes Behind the Image, The Stone and Sliding With Suzanne. Her previous stage credits include most recently Miss Julie (Citizens Theatre),The Herd (Bush) and The Trojan Women at the Gate. On television her credits include Sherlock, George Gently, Ripper Street, Father Brown and Bleak House. Her film credits include The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Heard and Delicious. Louise will appear in Letters Live alongside Benedict Cumberbatch at London's Freemasons' Hall (Covent Garden) from Tuesday 31st March until Saturday 4th April.

Nick Payne's?most recent plays at the Royal Court were Constellations (winner of the Evening Standard Best Play Award), The Art of Dying and?Wanderlust. His other credits include Constellations in the West End and on Broadway, Incognito (HighTide Festival/Bush),?Blurred Lines?(The Shed NT), The Same Deep Water As Me? (Donmar Warehouse),?If There Is I Haven't Found it Yet (The Bush). He was the winner of the George Devine Award in 2009 and also a member of the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme. Nick is currently playwright in residence at the Donmar Warehouse and working on projects for BBC Films.

Michael Longhurst?directs. Previously for the Royal Court he directed the original and recent broadway production of Constellations and Remembrance Day in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. His other credits include Bad Jews (St James's Theatre/ Arts), Tis Pity She's A Whore (The Globe), A Number (Young Vic & Southampton), If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet? (The Roundabout Theatre NY.), Stovepipe? (HighTide/Bush), On The Beach?as part of The Contingency Plan at the Bush Theatre,?On The Record? (Arcola),?dirty butterfly?(winner of the Jerwood Directors Award at the Young Vic),?1 In 5? as part of Daring Pairings at Hampstead Theatre and Fringe First Award winner?Guardians?at the Edinburgh Festival. He was a recipient of the Jerwood Directors Award (2007) at the Young Vic and a Fringe First in 2005.

The original production of Constellations opened in 2012 at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs to outstanding reviews and continued its critical sell-out success in a West End transfer and on Broadway. Constellations was first staged as part of the Royal Court's Jerwood New Playwrights programme, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

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